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2010

Archie Monroe, University of Miami trustee emeritus and founding chairman of the University of Miami Hospital Board of Governors was honored at a brunch reception on December 15 at University of Miami Hospital for his years of service to the University and UHealth-University of Miami Health System.

Get moving, eat healthy, and quit smoking – those were the three main messages thousands of participants heard at Saturday’s 2010 Miami-Dade Start! Heart Walk on the Florida International University campus in West Miami-Dade. The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine was well represented, with more than 200 walkers raising close to $20,000 to fund the organization’s goal of “building healthier lives free of cardiovascu

Upon concluding her tour of the Department of Surgery’s Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and General Dentistry’s new comprehensive surgery and dentistry office at University of Miami Hospital, Annabelle Sanchez, a clinical therapist in the hospital’s psychiatric department, had much the same enthusiastic reaction as others who attended the October 20 open house.

Thanks to patient access director Kassandra Lage and her UHealth colleagues, patients visiting medical campus clinics will encounter a swifter, more efficient registration process designed to get them into physicians’ offices quickly.

The dramatic results of a clinical trial using a new minimally invasive valve replacement intervention that’s performed using catheters at select institutions around the country – and only at the University of Miami Hospital in Florida – have just been published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.

In a speech kicking off the ninth UCare Leadership Development Institute (LDI) seminar Thursday, Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., Dean of the Miller School and CEO of the University of Miami Health System – UHealth, congratulated the health system’s faculty and staff for their hard work that led to his being named Business Leader of the Year in the hospital category by Business Leader Media.

University of Miami Miller School cardiologists have led research showing that hospitals using the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) program have improved their evidence-based treatment for heart attack patients and eliminated racial and ethnic disparities of care.